. a city that saw more than 500 murders last year. on thursday, he tried to ease the fears of gun owners, telling that google audience that he's focused mainly on what he described as weapons of war. >> people are going to be able to buy all kinds of guns and use them legally for protection, for sport, for hunting. what we're saying is, there may be a small category of weapons that we think really can drastically increase the incidence of gun violence. >> the head of the national rifle association, wayne lapierre, isn't buying it. he says the president's gun control effort is a charade, a political effort disguised as a public safety issue. >> they only care about their decades long, decades old gun control agenda. ban every gun they can, tax every gun sold, and register every american gun owner. >> david gregory is moderator of nbc's "meet the press." david, you're going to have a big, actually, subsection of guns in america on "meet the press" today. the president going to chicago. he supposedly going to talk about some economic stuff, but he had to deal with this gun issue, especially
